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News – Page 879 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

September 10, 2024

We Must Reject Secular Culture’s Nihilism and Its Terror of Life’s Mysterious Alchemy of Love and Pain, by Katherine Bennett

By Katherine Bennett, Catholic Herald - With life reduced to the material, and purpose replaced with comfort, one conclusion is to avoid the subject altogether. If there can be no value in suffering, or meaning in death, why would anyone want to talk about it, let alone see it?... Why would anyone choose to give their life for a stranger as St Maximillian Kolbe did, choose to give birth to a disabled child, or to stay alive following a fatal diagnosis? The culture of death is the inevitable consequence of a society absent from Christ.

September 10, 2024

Bishop Strickland Apologizes for Closing Churches During COVID: ‘I Was Duped’, by Matt Lamb

By Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews - Bishop Joseph Strickland has apologized for church closures during COVID lockdowns, saying he was “duped.”... Strickland made the comments in response to a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Crisis Editor-in-Chief Eric Sammons... “I wish our bishops knew the spiritual blessings that would be unleashed on the Church by a simple and sincere public apology for shutting down public Masses during COVID,” Sammons wrote... “Eric, I offer my apology as you have requested, I was duped by the media hype and should have been stronger” (responded Bishop Strickland) ...

September 10, 2024

Saul Alinsky and Archbishop Sheen Square Off on EWTN, by James Day

By James Day, National Catholic Register - The first episode of this two-part ‘Saints vs. Scoundrels’ (aired) Sunday, Sept. 8, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern... One wrote a manifesto called Rules for Radicals. The other wrote titles such as Seven Pillars of Peace, The Divine Romance and Freedom Under God. Both were natives of Illinois. Both shaped generations with their diverging philosophies.

September 10, 2024

On Femininity & Feminism: An Interview with Leila Lawler, by Robert Marco

By Robert Marco, Catholic Exchange - Leila Marie Lawler: “I started writing because I saw a need for women experiencing ‘feminism-induced anxiety syndrome’ to get some relief. Feminism is an ideology that can only succeed by means of a great, unrelenting effort to overcome the natural tendency of a woman to wish to be home, to make a home, to be a helpmate to her husband, and to nurture her children... “One of the ways feminism keeps a stranglehold on women—not just their actions but their psyches—is by insisting that managing a home is difficult drudgery .....

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